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WHERE NOT TO EAT? Little India, hands down.
If you want to know how NOT to run a service, then go to Little India.
You get a woman who pronounces the words, "Welcome to Little India" but her expression is clearly, "WTF are you guys here for?"
The samosas had cracked open and oil had seeped into the filling - ugh! Basmati Pilaf was nothing other than Plain Steamed rice. Maah ki daal was dry. There were two miserably oily looking legs of chicken in the Tandoori Chicken - below it there was a foil which had fat which had drained into it and dried up - wonder when it was last changed.
We asked for bowls and were told "this is a buffet" - indeed! We asked for plain naan, the waitress took away the buttered naans with a response, "You should have told me before." Whaat?
The short moustachioed owner whatever came out of the kitchen making excuses saying, "People work hard." Yeah? So if you can't bear the heat, get out of the kitchen! If you can't bear the hard work, go dumpster diving!
We were not served even a glass of water. When he failed to defend the indefensible, he started to say, "if you don't like this place, you..." to which my wife responded - "we were leaving anyway"
All these positive reviews are probably the owner's cronies - don't believe a word of what they say.
I have eaten Indian and non-Indian food in many cities in the US and around the world. This was by far the crappiest service and even crappier food that was on the fare.
In one word - AVOID!
I don't know if there is any better way to write this. So, I dare you go eat there and tell me if thats the best food you have ever eaten in your whole life :( Frozen Naan (owner- PLEASE don't argue on this, people are smart enough to know that..), Frozen tiny little samosas from Costco that is still cold, and rice-pudding? I said, what the heck was that? yes, it is sweet - thats because it has tons of sugar :( Its supposed to be cooked in milk, all it has is water and sugar..I have noticed at Yelp reviews - the owner likes to jump in to respond, getting very defensive. READ Yelp reviews, you will quickly find out those posted by the "real customers"
Don't imagine walking into this restaurant assuming super-packed, as it is all over Groupon.. Well, nada...! You may notice old-plastic-lids to cover food item "all melted" with heat. Unlike 99% of Indian Restaurant who server buffet in proper chaffing dishes, and serve steaming hot-fresh cooked food, You will experience a bit different style here,
If you read any reviews, anywhere, with "Great Food"? I am speechless, all I can say is, for your life-time experience, just go there yourself. You will then yourself judge those "great food" reviews :-) Even if you don't eat it, just go and see it...tell them you want to see food at Buffet first, Then, right-across is a "Thai" restaurant, in case you change your mind, and yes, they have great - fresh-cooked food. Sorry, no frozen food served at Thai Restaurant..
"Great Food" hehe .. Sorry.. HAHAHA.. wait..LMAO!
Great Indian Food – This place has a great Indin food buffet. I normally don't like buffet's, but in this case it was perfect. You can choose if you want the vegetarian or meat buffet. It's very quiet and quaint at night. The owner is very friendly and took very good care of us. Not to mention he made some great suggestions as to what to try.
Editorial Review – This restaurant serves authentic Indian cuisine including Tandoori Chicken, Lamb Vindaloo, Muttar Paneer and Mango Phirnee.
Rude waitress – The service was very poor. I got 1 piece of tasty bread at the beginning only once. I had a hard time to get a second glass of water but the worst of all was the rudeness of the waitress. The restaurant advertises buffet lunch, all you can eat, but the waitress got upset with me, made faces and raised her voice at me because I was eating too much cabbage. In reality I was eating 1/2 cup of cabbage. Several customers already don't go back for this wierd behaviour of the waitress. Buy the way the restaurant was almost empty but me and another customer. I will not go back for sure.
Great Indian Food! – I've been going to Little India since its opening in Redwood City 15 years ago. What a great place for Indian food! The dishes are always elegantly prepared by owner and chef Manoj Chopra, and the taste is always consistent and delicious! I recommend this place to anyone who loves some adventure and zest in their food.
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Fears of tax hikes in 2013 sent sales of high-end Manhattan properties soaring.
Total sales of both co-ops and condominiums jumped 40 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 year from the same period in 2011, according to a new report from Brown Harris Stevens. The average co-op price of $1,285,426 was 12 percent higher than a year ago, while three-bedroom and larger co-ops saw a 34 percent price leap. (Read More: America's Most Expensive Homes 2012.)
"With the upcoming changes in tax laws, record low interest rates and the inventory of available apartments at 30 percent below where it was a year ago, the incredible activity in the fourth quarter was not surprising" said Hall. F. Willkie, president of Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales.
Sales of properties priced over $10 million rose 44 percent from a year ago, and this does not include several major transactions in the last days of the year. One record $54 million east side co-op sale helped push average prices higher in that area by 20 percent.
As with the rest of the country, limited inventories of properties for sale are also causing price spikes. The number of properties for sale in Manhattan fell to the lowest level in 12 years according to another report from Douglas Elliman. Fourth quarter sales were the highest in 25 years. (Read More: 10 Unique Multimillion Dollar Homes.)
"It was the most active fourth quarter I have ever experienced in my entire career," said Dolly Lenz, vice chairman of Douglas Elliman. "Although at different ends of the market, the looming fiscal cliff, just like the first time home buyer tax credit, effectively stole sales from the future. I now expect the market to stabilize both in terms of activity and prices. But we still have a long way to go before we can declare that the housing market has fully recovered."
The price gains, however, were largely on the luxury end. In looking at the median prices, where half sell for higher and half sell for lower, prices for co-ops were up just 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter. Condominium prices actually fell just under one percent. (Read More: Extravagant Home Features of the One Percent.)
The median price in the luxury market, however, was $4,440,150, up 7 percent from a year ago, according to Douglas Elliman. The luxury market represents the upper 10 percent of all co-op and condo sales.
"The year-end jump in sales was a function of proactive tax management by property owners. Although it wasn't clear what form the tax hikes related to housing would take, it was assumed that 2013 would be higher than 2012," noted Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller Samuel, which provides the Elliman report data. (Read More: Million Dollar Winter Wonderland Homes.)
Prices in Manhattan are still about 6 to 7 percent off their pre-recession highs, but low supply will likely narrow that gap in 2013. Strong demand from foreign, all-cash buyers is also boosting prices, especially in the condo market. Gains, however, may slip in the current quarter, as so much demand was pulled forward.
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Extended Management Actions
BPEL SE supports persistence and monitoring. Usage of BPEL SE over time would result in the accumulation of the data in the persistence store.
Users would like to have more free space by deleting old and unwanted records. This applies to both persistence data store and monitoring data store. This is more important for monitoring, since monitoring records a whole lot more events than persistence. Providing out of the box scripts to do purging will take out the hassle from end users to write such scripts. The hassle is more pronounced for persistence data since persistence schema is not exposed like monitoring schema.
Post Sierra release. Sierra release is scheduled somewhere around 2nd quarter of 2008.
Users would like to back up their data before purging or back up their data for various reasons such as auditing or providing analytics. While we recognize that providing out of the box archiving scripts would be useful, we had to drop it for Sierra due to time constraints. At the same time since the monitoring schema is exposed to the users, it is expected that monitoring users writing archival scripts on the exposed schema is not unreasonable. Persistence data is used to recover instances in the unlikely events such as crash of BPEL SE. It is not directly used by the end user and hence is felt that there won't be a requirement to archive the persistence data.
This feature is provided as a developer version of the feature. We would like to get more feedback before we proceed with more advanced requirements which provide options such as parameters to the purging and archiving scripts. Some such parameters could be; date, state of instances, type of instances and so on. Would the users appreciate such an out of box solution or would they prefer writing their own scripts as DB ownership issues pop up in enterprise deployments?
Hence the scope of this feature doesn't include cluster support. It is only applicable for single engine users and is provided conveniently from the NB runtime GUI.
When a user right clicks on a component say BPEL-SE in the NB runtime, user sees the following actions.
The actions are enabled depending on the state of the BPEL-SE. Purge data action for persistence is enabled if the engine's persistence is turned on. Likewise for purging monitoring data.
Each components can have configurable operations that they want to expose. Today this is solved by providing a configuration MBean. And this configuration MBean provides only a pre-published set of APIs that are then also programmed into the common-client framework. But there are needs when more operations need to be exposed and the state of these operations is dependent on the state of the component. More flexibility is needed by the component to suggest what operations can be exposed and which one of those are enabled based on the state of the component.
For instance, if persistence is turned on, only then we want BPEL-SE to provide a "purge Data Action" in the list of BPEL-SE mbean actions. One way to do it is that the client (NB) has the code to see if the persistence is turned on or not. While it may solve such a simple scenario by putting such component specific logic in the client (NB) it is not a good idea since it forces the MBean clients to be aware of some component specific logic. Sometimes this could get trickier, for instance, in BPEL-SE even though persistence is turned on, if the engine is not shutdown and then started, persistence is not really turned on. In such situations, the UI doesn't really know if it can display the menu action "purge Data Action".
In summary, components need more Dynamic MBean actions, whose logic only the component understands. The MBean client can't be smart enough to understand the logic of the component to determine what operations are available and what operations are enabled/disabled.
MBean API
Each component registers an MBean by the identifier "ManagementActions". something like - context.getMBeanNames().createCustomComponentMBeanName("ManagementActions") This ManagementActions MBean will have one MBean operation called, "getActions()". Netbeans knows the above information and will query the ManagementActions.getActions() on the component.
The getActions() API will return an XML string conformant to the XSD,
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://sun.com/jbi/components/ActionableMBeans" xmlns:tns="http://sun.com/jbi/components/ActionableMBeans" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xsd:element name="root"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="tns:Action" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="Action" type="tns:ActionType"/> <xsd:complexType name="ActionType"> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="MBeanKey" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element name="OperationName" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element name="DisplayName" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="Description" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="Enabled" type="xsd:boolean" default="false" minOccurs="0"/> <xsd:element ref="tns:Action" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/> </xsd:sequence> <xsd:attribute name="isGroup" type="xsd:boolean" default="false"/> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:schema>
(Important: components need to consider internationalizing the UI aspect of this, namely DisplayName and Description values.)
common management API
Even though the scope doesn't include clustering, the common management API has been designed keeping cluster scenario in view. This API is also designed keeping in mind future requirements where the MBean operations may take parameters./** * Invokes an operation on an Extension MBean. * @param componentName * @param extensionName the name of the extension (e.g., Configuration, Logger, etc.) * @param operationName The name of the operation to be invoked. * @param parameters An array containing the parameters to be set when the operation is invoked * @param signature An array containing the signature of the operation. The class objects will be loaded using the same class loader as the one used for loading the MBean on which the operation was invoked. * @param targetName name of the target (e.g., server, Cluster1, StandloneServer2, etc.) * @param targetInstanceName name of the target instance (e.g., Cluster1-Instance1, Cluster2-Instance10, etc.) * @return The object returned by the operation, which represents the result of invoking the operation on the Extension MBean specified. * @throws ManagementRemoteException */ public Object invokeExtensionMBeanOperation(String componentName, String extensionName, String operationName, Object[] parameters, String[] signature, String targetName, String targetInstanceName) throws ManagementRemoteException;
When a user right clicks on a component say BPEL-SE in the NB runtime, NB will query the component MBean using the common management API mentioned above.
An example instance document of the above mentioned XSD could be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?> <ns0:root xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:ns0='http://sun.com/jbi/components/ActionableMBeans' xsi:schemaLocation='http://sun.com/jbi/components/ActionableMBeans newXmlSchema.xsd'> <ns0:Action> <ns0:MBeanKey>ManagementActions</ns0:MBeanKey> <ns0:OperationName>purgePersistenceData</ns0:OperationName> <ns0:DisplayName>Purge persistence data</ns0:DisplayName> <ns0:Description>Deletes persistence data</ns0:Description> <ns0:Enabled>true</ns0:Enabled> </ns0:Action> <ns0:Action isGroup="true"> <ns0:DisplayName>Monitor Actions</ns0:DisplayName> <ns0:Description>Actions related to onitoring</ns0:Description> <ns0:Action> <ns0:MBeanKey>ManagementActions</ns0:MBeanKey> <ns0:OperationName>purgeMonitorData</ns0:OperationName> <ns0:DisplayName>Purge data</ns0:DisplayName> <ns0:Description>Purges monitoring data</ns0:Description> <ns0:Enabled>true</ns0:Enabled> </ns0:Action> <ns0:Action> <ns0:MBeanKey>ManagementActions</ns0:MBeanKey> <ns0:OperationName>archiveData</ns0:OperationName> <ns0:DisplayName>Archive data</ns0:DisplayName> <ns0:Description>Archives monitoring data</ns0:Description> <ns0:Enabled>false</ns0:Enabled> </ns0:Action> </ns0:Action> </ns0:root>
The UI on NB most probably would look like,
When the user clicks on the action, "Purge Data", NB will query the MBean using the same common management API. NB will query corresponding component MBean and the operation specified in the corresponding xml section associated with the "Purge Data" action.
<ns0:Action> <ns0:MBeanKey>ManagementActions</ns0:MBeanKey> <ns0:OperationName>purgePersistenceData</ns0:OperationName> <ns0:DisplayName>Purge persistence data</ns0:DisplayName> <ns0:Description>Deletes persistence data</ns0:Description> <ns0:Enabled>true</ns0:Enabled> </ns0:Action>
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Update #4: 40K Stretch Goal Reached! Onto 60K with 2-Player Support and a New Stage, "Dark Planet"!For our last and final stretch goal of 60k, we are offering not only a brand new stage, "Dark Planet" for Redux: Dark Matters, but 2 Player support for the game! This is a first for a Dreamcast indie shmup and we are very excited to offer it!
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On top of Redux: Dark Matters, the long awaited DUX 1.5 for Sega Dreamcast is finally here and it is included with the Limited Edition of Redux: Dark Matters. DUX 1.5 is a refined and polished version of the original DUX released in 2009. This is the only time and place it will ever be available! Two new games in one limited edition set!
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• Limited Edition Redux: Dark Matters including DUX 1.5 (2-disc set)
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The hard copy of the 4 CD Complete Soundtrack Box Set. All music composed by Andre Neumann including many remixes by various artists such as Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican, R-Type). All on an accomplished 4 CDs! Pledge total includes shipping worldwide.
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The MP3 version of the Complete Soundtrack Box Set. All music composed by Andre Neumann. Remixes are included in the hard copy only and not included with the MP3 version.
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Gov. Paul LePage has declared a civil emergency Wednesday because of the federal government shutdown.
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Number of positions identified, as of Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, with some level of federal funding:
Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry - 151
Maine Arts Commission - 4
Attorney General - 16
Corrections - 8
Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management - 141
Economic & Community Development - 5
Education - 78
Environmental Protection - 110
Executive Department - 5
Maine Historic Preservation Commission - 5
Maine Human Rights Commission - 7
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Public Safety - 22
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Administration officials wouldn't say whether more furloughs are coming. State employees and the administration have been bracing for that possibility.
The administration said it is still bound to the terms of its collective bargaining agreement with the state employees union during a civil emergency.
State law authorizes the governor to declare a civil emergency. Such a declaration isn't unprecedented.
In 2009, Democratic Gov. John Baldacci declared a civil emergency in response to an outbreak of a deadly flu virus. That allowed the state to hire temporary clinicians in a mass vaccination drive.
In 1991, Republican Gov. John McKernan declared a civil emergency during a budget dispute that shut down state government, temporarily putting 10,000 state employees out of work.
Democratic legislative leaders quickly called on the governor to lay out his plan to use powers that allow him to suspend certain rules or regulations in order to carry out state business. They expressed surprise that LePage had used the executive power.
House Speaker Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, said the "action gives the governor significant power to suspend any of the state's laws. We want him to clearly lay out what he intends to do – which rules, statutes and laws he intends to suspend. We are calling for transparency, accountability and collaboration as we move forward."
Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, said in a prepared statement that he hopes the governor will work "toward a calm solution for the workers of Maine."
"Actions like this are surprising and unsettling for Mainers," Alfond said.
House Minority Leader Ken Fredette, R-Newport, issued a statement praising the action, although he did not elaborate on how it will help.
"I commend Governor LePage for taking this decisive and necessary action to ensure that the impact of the federal shutdown on federally funded state employees and to the state overall may be alleviated," Fredette said in the statement.
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Our foothills are part of us. Everyone has some kind of personal connection to the beauty of northern Colorado.
That is why coming to terms with the High Park Fire that started June 9 has been complex for many employees and community members.
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The marketing team developed and distributed information related to the fire, including ways to thank responders and share concern for people who lost homes or were evacuated.
"This was all in the interest of giving tangible support to the staff and community during a stressful time," Larson said. "In a lot of ways, we just worked on providing information that we were craving, too. Listening to our own reflections on the crisis helped."
The marketing team created messages to help address the emotional needs of both employees and community members. The team helped gain the approval of a $35,000 UCHealth donation to the American Red Cross in northern Colorado, and the Poudre Canyon and Rist Canyon volunteer fire protection districts.
The marketing team issued numerous news bulletins to update employees and created videos to offer helpful health information related to coping with the fire and smoke. The team also organized significant donations of goods to the evacuee relief effort.
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A simple but poignant connection came from the creation of four banners designed to express a heartfelt thank you to firefighters and emergency medical responders. The banners were available June 15 through June 18 for employees to sign.
Covered with employee-written messages like "You are the true heroes," "Thank you for saving my home" and "Your work is in our hearts," the banners were will be delivered to the respite camp for the firefighters and responders, and displayed for them to view.
By June 15, the end of the first week of the fire response, Kevin Darst, the northern Colorado marketing director, said he was struck by the compassion his team and UCHealth showed for employees and community members affected by the fire.
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Board President Donna Ross expressed misgivings about locating the middle school at the site of Cobb Elementary School, yet even as she did, board member William Hutchings repeatedly interrupted her, forcing board member C.K. Huguley had to step in to enable Ross to finish her points.
Eventually Superintendent Joan Frazier had to tell Hutchings that he had a habit of interrupting people.
Continuing to make her case, Ross said the system might be able to reduce costs if it places the junior high at the high school campus, saving money on certain facilities and giving middle school students more opportunities to take career technology classes.
In May the board voted to close the middle school and convert Cobb Elementary School into a junior high school for seventh- and eighth-graders, sending the sixth-graders back to the remaining four elementary schools. Ross told her colleagues she believed she made a mistake voting for that plan at the time, concerned as she was more with moving forward by consensus than with considering the academic implications.
Hutchings, who represents the neighborhood where Cobb is located, has been a proponent of putting the junior high school on the west side of Anniston as part of an effort to revitalize the neighborhood.
"I thought it was feasible to go to Cobb," he said, noting potential for the Anniston Housing Authority to renovate or replace the nearby Cooper Homes. "My thought was to beautify west Anniston… If you build something, put something there, the people gonna come."
Board member Mary Klinefelter told Ross she's not OK with putting junior high students with older students at the high school because they would be susceptible to bullying. She said it would be difficult to keep the two groups totally separated on campus.
Ross also said she'd heard some concerns from the parents about locating the middle school at Cobb. She said if the goal is to attract more students back to the school, putting it in an area that parents are leaving might not be the ideal plan.
In response, Klinefelter recalled the arguments of a generation ago, when a previous school board faced a similar question in the early 1980s.
"That was the exact hope of building Anniston Middle School where it is now," she said. "And we can all see what happened with that. It was neutral ground and it would attract all of our children back into Anniston Middle School, but I don't think that's happened."
Thrown into the location question was also the renovate vs. build question. After the vote in May, discussions with staff and the architect led to some board members considering tearing down the existing Cobb building and starting from scratch, a move that architect Seawell McKee said would only change the construction costs by about $265,000. While this has been discussed, the board has never voted to build a new school from scratch, something board member Bill Robison frequently reminds his colleagues of.
Frazier said that if there's going to be a change in the Cobb renovation plan, the board members will have to formally rescind the plan they've approved and she would have to recommend a new plan for a board vote.
She said the board's attorney is working now to draft a letter to the judge for approval of the plan under Lee v. Macon.
Ross noted that the original estimate for repurposing Cobb was less than $9 million, but after input from teachers, administrators and others, the architect offered a $16 million proposal that included a 500-seat auditorium and additional outdoor sports facilities, a project Mayor Vaughn Stewart recently endorsed as something that could be a community center by night.
Robison wasn't buying it.
"What we have done, unequivocally," the former Anniston mayor said, "is we have changed this thing from being academic- and system- and student-oriented to being money-oriented … rather than what is the best academic setting for the kids and to make the best use of the money."
Robison said spending $16 million on a school is a "ridiculous waste of money."
Hutchings noted early in the meeting that this cost could be trimmed.
"I think we need to give our students the best, and we need to decide that collectively…We need to decide what we want to give our students regardless of cost, first of all, and then see where that puts us," Huguley said.
The issues of the night were complex, in some respects frustrating, and the meeting's atmosphere reflected that. Members raised their voices and talked over each other and tempers flared as well. While Robison was trying to make a point about potential increased costs for decentralizing the sixth grade, he told Klinefelter to "get that smirk off your face," leading her to tell him he owed her an apology for the remark.
Robison offered no apology during the meeting, but Hutchings did apologize to Ross for his behavior in the meeting with a handshake.
— In a brief special meeting, the board also approved an additional cost of $200 for an online community survey as part of the superintendent search conducted by BWP Associates.
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In an ad accusing Josh Mandel, a Republican, of lying, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown's campaign team may have lied, according to PolitiFact. The U.S. senatorial campaign for Ohio's senate seat has been filled with dishonesty, but it usually comes from Mandel. The dishonesty seems to be hurting Mandel more than Brown; Mandel is currently down 7.5 points in aggregate polling numbers.Mandel is being taken to court by liberal blog Plunderbund. The blog claims Mandel has made it extra difficult to get public records.
Preliminary data for Ohio schools was released yesterday. Some data is still being held back while an investigation into fraudulent reporting from some schools is finished, but the data gives some insight into how schools performed during the 2011-2012 school year. The data can be found here. From a local angle, the data shows Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) did not meet "adequate yearly progress," a federal standard that measures progress in student subgroups, such as minority groups; but CPS did meet standards for "value-added growth," which measures the expected progress in state testing for all students between the third and eighth grades.
City Council approved the $29 million financing plan for the streetcar yesterday. The plan will use $15 million from the Blue Ash airport deal to move utility lines and pipes. The city claims the $15 million, which was originally promised to neighborhood projects, will be reimbursed by Duke Energy once the city settles a conflict with the energy company. Duke and the city are currently arguing over who has to pay to move the utility lines and pipes.
An Ohio state representative is asking the federal government to monitor the election more closely. Rep. Alicia Reece, a Cincinnati Democrat, is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to send monitors to the state to ensure no funny business goes on in voting booths on Nov. 6. The request is partly in response to a recent court ruling that forces Ohio to count provisional ballots if the ballots were brought around by poll worker errors.
Ohio's ability to stop political lies was upheld yesterday. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) tried to put an end to the government power, which COAST claimed was censorship, by taking it to court, but a U.S. judge upheld the ability. The judge, who is a former chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party, said COAST did not properly display that its speech was held down by the law. Considering some of COAST's tweets, the judge is probably right.
E.W. Scripps Co. will host a job fair in Cincinnati Oct. 10 to fill 100 digital jobs.
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the rights of lesbian ex-couples to set visitation times. The court said non-parents are allowed to participate in visitations during child custody proceedings.
Ohio might expand Medicaid, but not to the extent asked for by Obamacare. That's what the state's Medicaid director said yesterday, anyway. A previous study found Medicaid expansions improved and might have saved lives in other states, and other studies have found Medicaid expansions may save the state money by cutting uncompensated costs.
Pundits really dug into Mitt Romney the past few days over his poor poll numbers in Ohio. The Business Courier asked if Romney has already lost Ohio. Politico said Romney's biggest hurdle to the White House is Ohio. The New Republic ran an article with six theories as to what led to Romney's losses in the state. The Cleveland Plain Dealer pointed out both presidential candidates were stumping at a pivotal time in northern Ohio yesterday. Aggregate polling paints a consistently bad picture for Romney in Ohio; he is currently down four points.
But Romney probably isn't helping matters. In an Ohio
rally Tuesday, he admitted President Barack Obama didn't raise taxes in his
first term.
Gov. John Kasich signed a series of bills shoring up Ohio's public pension system yesterday. The laws will cut benefits and raise eligibility requirements, but state officials insist the new laws will mostly affect future retirees.
NASA wants samples from Mars, and it has a plan. The new plan may require a robot-to-human hand-off in space.
A federal judge ruled that in-person early voting in Ohio must be extended to include the weekend and Monday before Election Day for all voters. The ruling is a result of President Barack Obama's campaign team and the Democrats filing a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jon Husted to extend early voting. Attorney General Mike DeWine has vowed to appeal the ruling. Republicans have consistently blocked all attempts to expand early voting in Ohio, citing costs and racial politics.
Cincinnati manufacturing is on a big rebound, according to a new survey. The Cincinnati Purchasing Management Index, which is used to measure manufacturing in the area, showed some decline in July, but it is now bouncing back. The news could indicate a wider economic recovery.Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in town Saturday. During his speech, Romney pointed fingers to "cheaters" like China, which Romney believes is unfairly manipulating its currency. (China has not been manipulating its currency for some time now.) Romney also rolled out his plan to restore America's economy by emphasizing small businesses and cutting government spending. But the Brookings Institute says the unemployment rate would be at 7.1 percent if it wasn't for government cuts passed by state and federal governments in the past few years. Romney also wants to cut back on the Environmental Protection Agency, which he says is hurting local jobs with too many regulations.
Some Democrats are calling for Husted to resign. Dennis
Lieberman and Tom Ritchie, both who were fired for attempting to expand
in-person early voting to include weekends despite Husted's uniform
rules demanding no weekend hours, said in a press release Husted should resign for missing a
critical deadline. The deadline was to establish the ballot language and
argument against Issue 2, a ballot initiative supported by Ohio Voters
First that would place redistricting in the hands of an independent
citizens committee. If Issue 2 is not passed, politicians will continue
drawing district boundaries, which typically leads to a process known as
"gerrymandering" that politicians use to redraw districts in
politically beneficial ways. In Cincinnati, gerrymandering has been used
to de-emphasize the urban vote — or African-American vote, according to
Doug Preisse, adviser to Gov. John Kasich — by redrawing district
boundaries to include Warren County. CityBeat previously covered the redistricting issue here.
The Obama campaign will open its offices in Cincinnati tomorrow. The Obama team promises to use the offices for a large ground game.
The Ohio Board of Regents is calling on some Ohio colleges to continue enrolling military veterans despite a temporary disruption in federal benefits, which was caused by a loss of records.
Former Gov. Ted Strickland might run again to knock Gov. John Kasich out of the spot. Strickland is expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention today.Rep. John Boehner of Ohio seems to have his geography confused. At a speech, he said he wants senatorial candidate Josh Mandel of Ohio to win to "run Harry Reid back to Nevada." Reid is a U.S. senator for Nevada.
U.S. home prices rose in July by the most in six years. The news could indicate a recovery in the housing market. The housing crash is generally attributed as the primary cause of the Great Recession.The Democratic National Convention is heading into day two today. The convention is touting the new Democratic platform, which now includes support for same-sex marriage. At the Ohio delegation in the convention, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is often cited as a potential presidential candidate for the 2016 election, criticized Kasich.
A cure for baldness could be in stores as soon as five years from now.
Voters First is suing to get the original language restored on its redistricting amendment, which will appear on the November ballot as Issue 2. The organization succeeded in gathering enough signatures for its ballot initiative by July 28, but the Republican-led Ballot Board, which is chaired by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, changed the language in a way that makes the amendment less specific and more confusing, according to Voters First. If the amendment is approved by voters, the amendment will make it so the redrawing of district borders is handled by an independent citizens commission, instead of the committee of politicians that handle the issue every 10 years under the current system. CityBeat previously covered the issue here. In Cincinnati, redistricting placed Warren County in the city's district, leading to less emphasis on urban votes, according to MapGrapher:
The Cincinnati Enquirer has some speculation as to why University of Cincinnati President Greg Williams recently resigned. Apparently, Williams did not get along with the Board of Trustees.
A state grant is helping out LGBT homeless youth in Cincinnati. The grant, a total of $275,000, will go to Lighthouse Youth Services. The organization will put the money in its Lighthouse on Highland facility in Clifton, which provides street outreach, indoor and overnight services.
The federal government will provide aid to 75 Southwest Ohio medical practices. The program could bring $10 million in Medicare funds every year to the area. With the extra money, medical practices are expected to provide additional services.
Miami University suspended two fraternities after a fireworks battle led to the discovery of a large cache of illegal drugs. That sounds about right for a top 10 party school.Ohio courts are conflicted on whether or not they can divorce same-sex couples. Under current law, same-sex marriage has no legal force in Ohio, but some judges think there's enough room to allow divorcing same-sex couples who got married outside the state.
A new poll indicates Mitt Romney had no bounce in Ohio due to his pick of Paul Ryan as vice president, and President Barack Obama continues to lead by six points. Meanwhile, the senate race has slightly tightened, although Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, still leads challenger Josh Mandel, a Republican, by seven points. Aggregate polling has both the presidential race and senate race a bit closer, however.The Ohio Republican Party is sending quite a few members to the Republican Party's national convention. National conventions are when political parties announce presidential candidates and platforms.
Mother Jones debunked six myths about the U.S. education system. In short, the system has improved in the past few decades, especially in elementary and middle school, but high school education needs some help.New research shows that race does alter court sentences, but incarceration rates vary from judge to judge. On average, black defendants face an incarceration rate of 51 percent, while white defendants face an incarceration rate of 38 percent. That's a 13-point gap, which researchers said is "substantial."
Soon, people will be able to 3-D print guns at home.
"These kids don't have to live on the streets and wonder every day where they'll be getting their next meal," DeWine said in a statement.
The grant money, which totals $430,000, will be shared between the Cincinnati organization and The Next Step, another homeless aid organization based in Geauga and Portage counties.
LYS, which helps about 2,200 people in the Greater Cincinnati area each day, will get $137,500 year per year for two years. The money will primarily go to the Lighthouse on Highland facility, which is located in Clifton. Bob Mecum, CEO of LYS, says the facility helps youth between the ages of 16 and 24 that are typically victims of violence.
During the day, Lighthouse on Highland provides nursing, showering, washing, food, shelter, computer and case-management services. At night, the organization acts as a 28-bed shelter. On the average day, the facility helps 10 to 30 people with its street outreach services and 40 to 60 people with its on-site services. On the typical night, 27 out of 28 beds are filled.
"Through this grant from the attorney general offices, the services out of the Highland location will be funded," Mecum says.
On average, LGBT youth face greater homelessness rates. Even though LGBT youth makes up only about 10 percent of the general youth population, LGBT youth makes up about 20 percent of the homeless youth population, according to the National Coalition of Homelessness. LGBT youth are also twice as likely to experience sexual abuse by the age of 12, and they're about 7.4 times more likely to experience acts of sexual violence than heterosexual youth.
"The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors," the company said in the statement.
The statement went on to announce the company, under the order of CEO Lisa Henson, will be donating payments received from Chick-Fil-A to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), one of the biggest pro-gay-rights groups in the country.
The news comes after a week of scrutiny following company president Dan Cathy's declaration that he is against gay marriage. Politicians piled on to the news. Same-sex marriage opponents praised the company for its stance, while prominent Democrats and Republicans criticized Chick-Fil-A for the position.
The company has long held an anti-gay stance. It has publicly supported and funded anti-gay groups, and the company was reported to be co-sponsoring a marriage conference with the anti-gay group Pennsylvania Family Institute last year.
Chick-Fil-A has also been known for promoting fundamentalist Christian values. Founder Samuel Truett Cathy has identified himself as a staunch Christian, and the chain's restaurants close on Sundays to respect Christian values. Even the company's corporate purpose statement invokes religion: "To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us."
The company has also been criticized for religious discrimination in the past. In 2002, a former Muslim employee sued the company because he claimed he was fired for not participating in a group prayer to Jesus Christ. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
In the first town hall-style event of the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama fielded questions on Monday about rights for the LGBT community, what he would do for small business during a second term and which was his favorite Girl Scout cookie (Thin Mints).
Obama — the first Democrat to carry Hamilton County since Lyndon Baines Johnson — held a packed town hall meeting at Music Hall. Cincinnati Fire Department Capt. Joseph E. Wolf estimated the crowd at 1,200 people in the ballroom with an additional 421 hosted outside.
The most recent Quinnipiac University poll from June 27 showed that 47 percent of Ohio voters favored the president, while 38 percent were behind his presumed Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
Mayor Mark Mallory fired up the crowd before the president spoke, saying Hamilton County is the most important county in Ohio, and Cincinnati the most important city in the county.
"The folks in this room are the most important folks in terms of the re-election of President Barack Obama in the United States of America," Mallory said.
Attending the town hall was former Cincinnati mayor and daytime TV host Jerry Springer, who said he and about a dozen other folks had a private meeting with the president earlier in the day.
"I think it would be bad for the country," Springer said of an America that saw Obama lose the November election. He says the Republican-controlled house would run away with our country without a Democrat in the Oval Office to issue a veto.
Just an hour before the president spoke and seven blocks away at Fountain Square, dozens of Romney supporters rallied, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obama Bin Lyin'."
Republican Mike Wilson, who is looking to unseat Montgomery Democrat Rep. Connie Pillich in the Ohio House of Representatives, was among the speakers at the Romney Rally. Pillich defeated Wilson in the 2010 election.
"Ohio seems destined to play a pivotal role. We're used to it," Wilson said.
Wilson criticized the Obama campaign for "playing politics" with Romney's tenure at the head of investment firm Bain Capital.
The Obama campaign has claimed that Romney invested in businesses that outsourced American jobs.
"We're all interested with what Romney did with his money, but we're not interested with what Obama is doing with our money," Wilson said.
He blamed over-regulation and taxation from the Obama administration for companies moving their operations overseas.
Gerry Molt, who attended the rally with his wife Roxanne, claimed that Obama is at war with America and says the focus on Bain Capital is "clearly a distraction."
Roxanne Molt said she's excited about the importance of Hamilton County in this year's election.
"I think this is the premier election of our lifetime," she said. "I think Romney's got a good plan. We need someone who supports capitalism."
The president did a little bit to support Cincinnati capitalism, making a pit stop at Skyline Chili before the town hall, where he ordered a 4-way and two cheese coneys.
The economy was a big focus of Obama's speech, but also of questions he received afterward.
Tony White, who owns a barber shop/beauty salon, asked what the president would do for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
In his response, the president touted the possible savings for small businesses under the health care overhaul, saying they could pool together and receive the same rates as larger businesses. As for moving forward, Obama said he would continue to put pressure on banks to lend to small businesses.
"We've actually been pushing the banks to say, 'look, taxpayers pulled your backside out of the fire, it's now important for you to step up and make sure that small businesses aren't finding their credit restricted, especially if they've been in business for a while," he said.
The president was also asked by a woman who only identified herself as Anna what he would do to further help the LGBT community. Anna's son Adam is openly gay and is looking at attending Miami University in Oxford.
Despite earlier teasing that he wouldn't sing at the town hall, Obama led the crown in singing "Happy Birthday" to Adam, who turned 18 on Monday.
Obama again answered the question by touting his accomplishments so far — ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that forbid homosexuals from serving openly in the military and expanding hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners — before going on to say that the federal Defense of Marriage Act needs to be repealed.
The Defense of Marriage Act defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Obama is the first American president to openly support gay marriage.
The theme the president to which continued to return was that America needs to return to being the land of opportunity.
"What really sets us apart has always been that we have the greatest middle class and a basic idea that's at the heart of this country that says if you work hard then you can get ahead. If you're responsive, then you can live out your dreams. You're not confined to the circumstances of your birth."
German Lopez contributed to this report.
Someone really smart in Todd Portune's office warned his or her superiors that the monthly first-Wednesday siren test might scare the living hell out of tens of thousands of foreign people visiting Cincinnati for the World Choir Games, so there will be no siren test this month.
River Downs applied for some slot machines, the second racetrack in the state to do so.
Here's the latest person to write about how screwed Mitt
Romney is due to the constitutional health care mandate or, more
importantly, the similar one he passed in Massachusetts. MSNBC says the Bain attacks are hurting Romney. And
Mother Jones says this: "Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That
Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show."
And Obama is "feeling the pain" of campaign fundraising. Whatever that means.
Here's all you need to know about torture in Syria. Thanks, Human Rights Watch.
Anderson Cooper publicly announced that he's gay after a discussion with friend and journalist Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast regarding celebrities coming out. Cooper emailed Sullivan about the matter and gave him permission to print it.
"I've also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. There continue to be far too many incidences of bullying of young people, as well as discrimination and violence against people of all ages, based on their sexual orientation, and I believe there is value in making clear where I stand.
"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."
Chrysler's sales are up 20 percent, but the company hasn't specifically thanked JLo for boosting the Fiat marketshare.
Scientists are saying that recent heat waves, wild fires and other seemingly random natural disasters are due to global warming. And we thought it was only going to be our kids' problem. :(
Meanwhile, European physicists hope to find the God
particle by the end of the year, explaining the creation of the world.
Here's video of a British guy trying to explain what the particle is
using a plastic tray and ping pong balls.
The NFL is going to back off some of its local blackout
rules. Teams now must only hit 85 percent of their ticket sales goal
rather than 100 percent to avoid making local markets watch crappy
regional games instead of their favorite teams. That means more Bengals games, less crappy Browns broadcasts.


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WHILE anatomically illiterate politicians in America babble about "legitimate rape," a Filipino legislator opposed to birth controlhas been shedding crocodile tears in Parliament and plagiarizing speeches to bolster the case against reproductive rights.
On Aug. 13, the Senate majority leader, Tito Sotto, wept while addressing his assembled peers. The former actor told the Senate that birth-control pills, used by his wife in 1974, had led to the death of their newborn son a year later. The emotional scene shut down the day's debate. It was the latest obstruction to passing a reproductive health law that has languished for 14 years.
Proponents of the reproductive health bill say it will address poverty, women's rights, infant and maternal mortality, and overpopulation in a poor nation crowded with 94 million people. Though contraceptives are currently available, the general population can't afford them. The bill seeks to offer natural and artificial birth-control options, reproductive health care and sex education in public schools.
Opponents, like Mr. Sotto and the powerful Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, say contraception is akin to abortion. They claim the bill is an elitist and foreign conspiracy to corrupt a country in which 80 percent of the population is Catholic. They fear the erosion of family values, state intrusion on religious freedom, tacit approval of promiscuity and side effects of oral contraceptives.
Two days later, news that Mr. Sotto had plagiarized his speech spilled across blogs, Twitter and Facebook. Careful readers proved that he'd copied and pasted, without citation, large portions from as many as at least five online sources. Among them were the writings of Sarah Pope, who blogs as "the Healthy Home Economist"; a New York University Web site on the notable birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger; and an American activist named Janice Formichella, writing for Feminists for Choice. What's more, the senator twisted their words for his own purposes.


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More Than Nine Months After Quake, Haitians Want to Go Home
Barbara J. Fraser
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS)—A tent on a main drag through one of the city's largest tent camps is an ideal spot for Jocelin Benjanor's cell-phone-recharging business. Various phones rest, plugged in, on a table, and power cords hang from an outlet at the top of the tent.
As a bonus, there are benches and a television set in the rear, where women stop by in the afternoon to watch "The Devil Knows Best," a popular Spanish-language soap opera.
A carpenter by trade, Benjanor found a market niche in the tent camp that sprang up on the grounds of the Petionville Club golf course. Relatives and friends chipped in to help him buy a small generator for the tent, which he shares with Rudy Joernal, a cable TV installer-turned-barber.
While businesses like his give a semipermanent feel to the tent camps that sprang up after the Jan. 12 earthquake, Benjanor hopes to return to the nearby Delmas neighborhood, where he lived before disaster struck.
What would it take to convince him to return to the place where he used to live? His answer is echoed throughout the camps: He would go back if he could be sure of making a living.
Resettlement of as many as 1.5 million people left homeless by the quake is one of the most pressing but intractable problems facing Haiti as the country struggles to recover from the disaster that killed at least 230,000 people.
"In survey after survey, people just want to go back home to their original site," said Scott Campbell, country director in Haiti for Catholic Relief Services, the humanitarian aid and development arm of the U.S. bishops.
But it is not easy. Many people who owned houses or lots do not have documents to prove it, and official records were destroyed when government offices collapsed. Others rented apartments or rooms in three- or four-story buildings, so even if temporary shelters are set up on the site, they cannot house the number of people who originally lived there.
And while an estimated 700,000 people left the hard-hit capital to stay with relatives in other parts of the country after the disaster, many have drifted back to the city in search of work, further straining inadequate public services.
In a country where 70 percent of the population lived on less than $2 a day even before the earthquake, the economics of reconstruction run in a vicious circle. People need capital to rebuild their homes, but with scant income and no chance of a loan, they see little possibility of leaving their tents and returning home to reconstruct.
Campbell said CRS and other aid agencies are trying to break the cycle by focusing on rebuilding neighborhoods, so people will have a place where they can both live and make a living.
"Having people in camps was always the last option," he said. The goal is "preserving the social tissue of communities. We're not just rebuilding housing; we're rebuilding communities."
For some, the earthquake itself has created a livelihood.
In a workshop under a tin-roofed shelter, surrounded by stacks of lumber, dozens of men and women wield hammers, saws and nail guns in a CRS-funded assembly line that turns out about 25 prefabricated two-room dwellings—known as temporary shelters or "T-shelters"—a day. The workers are learning a trade and earning minimum wage in a cash-for-work program for earthquake victims.
Almost as fast as the wall and roof panels are finished, young men hoist them onto a brightly painted truck for delivery to Carrefour, a hillside neighborhood where Good Samaritan Divine Ministries, a Protestant church organization, helps residents with physical disabilities who lost their homes.
"I am alive because of the grace of God and the solidarity of my neighbors," said Prosper Deno, 67, who was blinded by glaucoma three years ago. The house he shared with his daughter and granddaughter on a precarious hillside in Carrefour's Rosalva neighborhood collapsed during the earthquake.
While Deno has a roof over his head, his neighborhood still lacks a sewer system and safe water, and electricity comes from a tangle of overhead wires tacked to a rusty, crooked pole. Nevertheless, the house is his. Even if earthquake victims erect their shelters on rented lots or in places with land title disputes, if the victims must move, the CRS-funded houses go with them.
CRS plans to turn out about 8,000 12-by-16-foot shelters, though it may make more if all goes well, said CRS construction manager Herb Combs, who worked as a builder and contractor near Denver before joining the reconstruction effort in Haiti.
"The trick has always been where to put them," Combs said of the houses.
One obstacle is the rubble that still litters the hardest-hit sections of Port-au-Prince. Nearly 10 months after the disaster, less than 5 percent of the rubble has been cleared.
Part of the delay is due to a shortage of dumping sites for a staggering amount of debris described by one aid worker as "enough to fill a line of shipping containers stretching end-to-end from London to Beirut."
Hyperbole aside, the logistics of breaking up huge chunks of concrete and twisted metal with sledgehammers, then hauling it in buckets through the narrow, winding alleys of the city's hillside shantytowns are also daunting.
The damage is scattered around Port-au-Prince. In some places, entire neighborhoods collapsed. In others, homes look normal, but a glance behind the facade reveals a pile of rubble. Some collapsed buildings are surrounded by others that show no damage. Scavengers rummage through the debris, scrounging metal reinforcing rods or other materials that can be reused or sold for scrap.
In a drab government office, behind a desk piled high with plans and documents, including a how-to rebuilding guide for homeowners, Jacques Gabriel, minister of public works, transportation and communication, displays a map of the capital dotted with red, green and yellow circles.
Engineers are going door to door throughout the city, assessing damage and marking buildings in green if they are habitable, yellow if they need repair and red if they must be demolished. More than 250,000 buildings have been inspected so far. Most are green or yellow, but even sound buildings were probably weakened by the earthquake.
Most of the red dots are clustered in the old downtown and adjacent areas, probably because of unstable soil. There has been talk of relocating people to safer ground farther from the hardest-hit areas, but implementation of post-quake reconstruction and resettlement plans has been slow.
Gabriel speaks optimistically, and somewhat wistfully, of plans and hopes for reconstruction. A Canadian consulting firm is drafting a building code, the World Bank has offered to fund a recycling project, and there are plans for better drainage, wastewater treatment, road improvement and smoother traffic flow.
Post-earthquake commitments from governments and international aid agencies offer an opportunity to make the improvements Gabriel envisions, but the task is daunting.
"There are many things to be done if we are to have a 21st-century capital," he said.
CNS correspondent Barbara J. Fraser, winner of a 2010 Egan Award for Journalistic Excellence, traveled to Haiti with Catholic Relief Services in October.
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